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Teh One Who Knocks
02-22-2011, 02:23 PM
Agence France Presse


(AFP) - A French father of seven was set to go on trial Tuesday for allegedly murdering his wife, burying her in the garden and then, two years later, trying to burn her remains on the family barbecue.

Benoit Piet reported his 34-year-old wife Adeline missing in 2006, sparking a massive police search around their home in the village of La Gouesniere, near Saint-Malo, on France's picturesque Brittany coast.

Piet, who was 38 at the time, initially explained his wife's disappearance to police by saying she wanted a change of scenery -- but when he was brought in for questioning two years later, he admitted that he buried his wife in the garden, then exhumed her to burn the remains on the barbecue as police closed in.

Piet has consistently denied murdering his wife, saying initially that she committed suicide, then that unknown attackers killed her and threatened their children if he spoke about the murder. He eventually said his wife died during a domestic dispute while he was drunk but stopped short of saying that he himself killed her.

The couple was in the process of getting divorced when Adeline died.